J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

After Civita Castellana, Turner’s left the Via Flaminia and travelled south-west to Nepi, a town approximately twenty-three miles north of Rome. His route entered Nepi from the north near the eighteenth-century aqueduct and followed the road in a clockwise direction through the town, round the Palazzo Comunale towards the southern side (present-day Via Termolarte) and the Porta Romana. The subject of this rough pencil sketch has not been conclusively identified although it possibly records the western approach to the Porta Romana and the fifteenth-century castle, the Rocca dei Borgia at Nepi. The drawing continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 82 (D14813).